Black Hand

noun

1. Italian La Mano Nera. any of various secret criminal groups organized in Italy and operating in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing blackmail and violence.
2. an anarchistic society in Spain, suppressed in 1883.
3. a nationalistic society in Serbia, suppressed in 1914.

Black Hand

noun

1. a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
2. (in 19th-century Spain) an organization of anarchists

Other Words From

• Blackhander noun

Example Sentences

They had been recruited, trained, and armed by the Black Hand, a secret group dedicated to the expansion of the Kingdom of Serbia and the liberation of all Serbs living under foreign rule.

From Literature

Turscak said he chose the day after Thanksgiving - Black Friday - as a symbolic connection to Black Lives Matter and the Mexican Mafia’s “Black Hand” symbol, prosecutors said.

From Washington Times

Turscak said he chose the day after Thanksgiving — Black Friday — as a symbolic connection to Black Lives Matter and the Mexican Mafia’s “Black Hand” symbol, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times

Turscak said he chose Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and the Mexican Mafia’s “Black Hand” symbol, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times

These, we are assured, are “desperate men,” but not even the cleverest of the Black Hand gang is a match for the steamroller once the latter, with extraordinarily quick perception, has detected his true nature.

From New York Times

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